Writer 's block Quote by Peter Arpesella

Writer's block? I've never heard of a plumber complain about plumber's block.

— Robert B. Parker

I think writer's block is simply the dread that you are going to write something horrible. But as a writer, I believe that if…

— Roy Blount, Jr

Maybe one of the reasons that I don't ever experience myself as having writer's block is I don't feel that I need to be…

— Emily Barton

I've never really suffered complete and utter writer's block, really. I equate it with sex: in the beginning of my career, I was writing…

— Loudon Wainwright III

I don't believe in writer's block, writing well is very easy; it's writing horribly, the horrible work necessary to do to get to writing…

— Dean Young

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

I don't think that writer's block exists really. I think that when you're trying to do something prematurely, it just won't come. Certain subjects…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“My imagination was running amok again. Twice in one night. This never happens when I’m sitting in front of a typewriter.”

— Gary Reilly

Cure for writer's block: blow something up(in the story)

— Scott Westerfeld

Writer's block.. when one curses the blinking cursor on the blank page.

— Regina Brett

My prescription for writer's block is to face the fact that there is no such thing… Writing well is difficult, but one can always…

— Thomas Mallon

“Sometimes feeling blocked is simply a sign that we need to wait and let the natural course of events to unfold.”

— Laurie E. Smith